Scott Wykoff's Blog

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

A True Sign Of Fall

Sure it's been in the low 50s and the Ravens have already hit the quarter pole for their season.

But the true tell-tale sign of Fall's arrival in Baltimore is the annual arrival of the massive pumpkin at Valley View Farms.

This year can you say 1,540 pounds!

That's a photo of the huge pumpkin at the top of this blog. We added the young man just to give you a real sense of how big it is.

The folks at Valley View Farmshave even named this year's giant gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae. Big words to describe a big pumpkin.

Meet Rolling Thunder. Rolling Thunder because of the sound it made in the back of the delivery truck as it made the trip from "up the river" to Baltimore.

How about the Ravens pumpkin that Carrie Engel brought by the radio station today.

Now that's no easy feet getting that Raven to sit there right on top of the black painted pumpkin.

BTW, VVF's "Gardening Guru" has been doing her thing at the garden center and nursery along York Road in Cockeysville for more than 3 decades.

Carrie tells me Rolling Thunder is the largest pumpkin ever placed on display in Maryland and one of the largest ever displayed in the world.

The record setting pumpkin , as well as several other giant pumpkins, will remain on display at Valley View farms until noon on Saturday, November 6th when Rolling Thnuder will be cut open, its seeds will be counted by WBAL Chief Meteorologist Tom Tasselmyer, and the first person to guess the correct number of seeds in the giant pumpkin will win a hefty VVF gift card.